William Plumer

William Plumer (25 June 1759-22 December 1850) was a US Senator for New Hampshire from 17 June 1802 to 3 March 1807, succeeding James Sheafe and preceding Nahum Parker, and Governor of New Hampshire from 5 June 1812 to 3 June 1813 (succeeding John Langdon and preceding John T. Gilman) and from 6 June 1816 to 3 June 1819 (succeeding Gilman and preceding Samuel Bell). He was a Federalist Party member.

Biography
William Plumer was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1759, and his family moved to Epping, New Hampshire in 1768. His ill health meant that he could neither serve in the American Revolutionary War nor farm, and he instead became a lay Baptist preacher. Plumer later decided on a law career, becoming a lawyer in Epping in 1787. He served in the House of Representatives from 1785 to 1786, in 1788, from 1790 to 1791, and from 1797 to 1800, and he also served in the US Senate from 1802 to 1807 and as Governor of New Hampshire from 1812 to 1813 and from 1816 to 1819. In 1803, he proposed New England's secession in response to the expansion of Democratic-Republican power following the Louisiana Purchase, and he served in the State Senate from 1810 to 1811. He left the governorship in 1819, and he died in Epping, New Hampshire in 1850.